The Senate Judiciary Committee is reviewing a third allegation of sexual misconduct against Brett Kavanaugh from a woman who says she knew him during their high-school days.
Attorney Michael Avenatti posted a sworn declaration from his client, Julie Swetnick, on Twitter Wednesday morning containing lurid allegations against the Supreme Court nominee and his male friends that went far beyond what the previous two accusers described.
“This morning Michael Avenatti provided a declaration to the Judiciary committee,” Judiciary Committee spokesman Taylor Foy said. “Committee lawyers are in the process of reviewing it now.”
Swetnick’s affidavit describes alcohol-saturated parties at which she and Kavanaugh were present, and says she saw him become intoxicated and act aggressively toward girls, including pressing himself against them without their consent. She says that she was raped at one of the parties around 1982.
“This is ridiculous and from the Twilight Zone,” Kavanaugh said in a statement released by the White House. “I don’t know who this is and this never happened.”
“That’s totally false and outrageous,” the statement added. “I’ve never done any such thing, known about any such thing.”
Another woman, Christine Blasey Ford, is set to testify on Thursday about her claim that Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed and attempted to remove her clothing at a party when they were both in high school. A third woman has alleged that Kavanaugh exposed himself to her at a party during their freshman year at Yale University.
“I drank beer with my friends, usually on weekends,” Kavanaugh wrote in a statement released Wednesday by the Judiciary Committee. “Sometimes I had too many. In retrospect, I said and did things in high school that make me cringe now. But that’s not why we are here today. What I’ve been accused of is far more serious than juvenile misbehavior.”
Republican lawmakers have said they would like to hear more from other accusers, but so far Ford is the only one slated to testify on Thursday.